Central Asia is the subject matter of this moving travelogue by an accomplished photographer working in the tradition of the great 19thcentury explorers. Alive to the present, conscious of the past, Daniel Schwartz is without inhibition in documenting everything that he seeks out or that comes his way. Central Asia is the largest natural fortress on earth, traversed by a few routes that have been used by traders and armies since earliest times and are still today the arteries for those in search...
More Necropolises of New Orleans (Book II) (Travel Photo, #3)
by Laine Cunningham
County Maps and Histories (County maps & histories)
by Valerie Scott and Hugh Barty-King
A handy travel-sized photographic tour of Ireland, region by region, that's ideal for tourists. It contains a collection of atmospheric photographs showing the beauty and diversity of Ireland's landscape. It includes: GlendaloughThe Giant's CausewayThe BurrenThe SkelligsMizen HeadLough DergRock of CashelGlen of AherlowClew BayKillary HarbourThe Slieve Bloom Mountains And many more.
This beautiful book of art photography provides 145 never-before seen candid views of Amish life in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. See Amish families at work, play, and socializing in their society. The powerful photography speaks for itself and gives you a professional photographer's view of their compelling world. The Old Order Amish settled in Pennsylvania in 1737. For over 250 years they have thrived, doubling their population every 20 years. These Amish Christians worship in their homes ev...
Envisioning New Jersey (Rivergate Regionals Collection)
by Maxine N. Lurie and Richard F. Veit
See New Jersey history as you read about it! Envisioning New Jersey brings together 650 spectacular images that illuminate the course of the state's history, from prehistoric times to the present. Readers may think they know New Jersey's history - the state's increasing diversity, industrialization, and suburbanization - but the visual record presented here dramatically deepens and enriches that knowledge. Maxine N. Lurie and Richard F. Veit, two leading authorities on New Jersey history, prese...
In 1984 the novelist Caryl Phillips set off on a journey across Europe in an attempt to clarify the fundamental question of his identity - as he put it "to come to terms with what it is like to feel both of, and not of, Europe". In a series of snapshots - part travelogue, part autobiography, part polemic - the author gives an account of a journey of the heart and mind as well as of Europe today. This new edition includes an account of the radical and profound changes which have taken place in Eu...
Images of Omagh and District (Images of Omagh & District S., Vol. 22)